The Equestrian News

04/08/2025

FEI Dressage World Cup Finals Results - Basel

https://www.longinestiming.com/equestrian/2025/the-fei-world-cup-finals-basel-basel/resultlist_D12.html

04/08/2025

Emanuele Camilli secures a breakthrough LGCT Grand Prix win in Mexico City, claiming €237,600 and shaking up the 2025 championship standings.

04/08/2025

Temecula, CA

IOC is expected to review proposals again on April 9; qualification system meanwhile addresses teams who fail to take up their place.

04/08/2025

Katy, TX

Katy, TX – April 4, 2025 – The $25,000 Frio Vodka Grand Prix at Pin Oak Week 2 came down to a lightning-fast, 13-horse jump-off, and at the end of the day on Thursday, April 3, it was Avery Griffin who galloped away with the win aboard Oh My Star van Strytem, owned by PBC Equine Investments L...

04/08/2025

The FEI North American Youth Dressage Championships (NAYC) is the premier equestrian competition in North America for children (ages 12-14), juniors (ages 14-18), young riders (ages 16-21), and U25 (ages 16-25). Young equestrians vie for team and individual FEI medals in the Olympic equestrian dis...

03/07/2025

From Robert Dover
“In 1996, Romance Farm Inc was still running full force and Katherine Bateson Chandler and I, along with all our students, were busy training lots of lovely horses to Grand Prix. The year before, I had helped Anne Gribbons with her elegant, grey, Metallic, to make the Pan American Team. Anne and I went back many years with him and other horses and I still love her and her husband, Dave. With no horse for the Olympics in Atlanta, Jane Forbes Clark leased Metallic for me to try out on. Anne had ridden him a few times in Grand Prix and though he was gorgeous, he was also very smart and not a simple ride. A very interesting characteristic of grey horses that I learned from experience is that they are both highly intelligent and extremely skin sensitive. It is my belief that these qualities make them super jumpers that are really careful and don’t like to touch jumps, but also don’t love a firm connection to their bits. In Dressage, that sensitivity tends to make them difficult to connect and keep in positive tension without it going over the edge into negative tension and mistakes. Naturally, these are generalizations and there are always exceptions, like Matinee, but Metallic was not one of them. As I went from show to show, just when I thought he was going to give a solid ride, we would enter the arena and let me know who was in charge and it wasn’t me! He would throw 1’s in the 2’s, 2’s in the 1’s, begin performing a pirouette in the zig-zags, and vice-versa. At the very end of the second weekend of final selection trials for the Games, I knew that I was on the edge of failing to make the team, but our Freestyle to Ray Charles’s, “Georgia”, put us over the edge to go with to Atlanta that summer. Our Team won the bronze medal there but I was not thrilled with my Grand Prix. I made the wrong decision to push Metallic in the final minutes of the warmup for the Grand Prix Special, Individual event and he made it abundantly clear that it was a mistake. He resisted in the second piaffe and that was all she wrote. Other errors followed and I was taught a valuable lesson that, in the moment, was a failure I was embarrassed by. Looking back today, i realize that that test and others like it were actually how I learned how to succeed.”

03/07/2025

Vejer de La Frontera, – March 06, 2025 –

Vejer de La Frontera, – March 06, 2025 – Major FEI-level competition took off to new heights on Thursday at the 2025 Andalucía Sunshine Tour. Thursday’s main class was the €10,250 Hipotels Trophy C…

03/07/2025

03/07/2025

List of All Major Events this Weekend with Links to More Information about Them

Wellington, Florida, USA – March 07, 2025 – Temperatures are on the rise across the United States and so is the level of competition this week at the 2025 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). Five-sta…

02/12/2025

WEF Wellington FL

Wellington, Florida, USA – February 08, 2025 – World no. 3 Kent Farrington stormed to a five-star victory on home ground in the $385,000 Fidelity Investments® Grand Prix CSI 5* aboard his 2024 FEI …

02/12/2025

From Showjumping Nostalgia

Baloubet du Rouet was born in 1989, thanks to French breeder Louis Fardin. His father, Galoubet A, was renowned as one of the top jumping horses globally at that time. Many who witnessed the stallion in action remarked on his remarkable jumping style. Galoubet A clinched the French championship title three times while ridden by Gilles Bertran, in 1977, 1979, and 1982, and played a key role in securing a gold medal for the French team at the 1982 World Championships.

Baloubet wasn't the only notable offspring of Galoubet; his brother, Skippy II, also excelled in both competition and breeding. Baloubet began his competitive journey with Rémy Bourdais after being purchased by Nicole and Diego Pereira Couthino when he was just four years old. "For us, it was love at first sight," they shared. Bourdais noted, "I sensed right away that he was going to be something special. His jumping abilities were extraordinary. He was easy to manage, but once he entered the competition arena, he transformed. At that point, his only focus was clearing all the jumps. He had a strong character, plenty of energy, and a fiery temperament. He could get easily distracted, so keeping his attention was crucial." By the age of six, the stallion had moved to the Pessoa family's stables.

Rodrigo Pessoa humorously recalled, "With Baloubet, it certainly wasn't love at first sight. When I first saw him get off the truck, I thought, 'What on earth is that?' He looked awkward and seemed to lack control over his body. We let him loose jump for a few days, but he was quite inexperienced. What stood out immediately was that he never made the same mistake twice. Each day, he improved, and it was as if he learned from his errors overnight, correcting them the very next day. He was incredibly smart, which I really appreciate in jumpers."

02/12/2025

Former President of the FEI John Roche joined the FEI in 1964 and served until 1987 and is the longest FEI President to run the organization

John Roche joined the FEI in May 1987, starting his career in the Sport Department under former FEI President Her Royal Highness Princess Anne who took over the role from her father His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – the FEI’s longest serving president (1964-1986). Roche’s i...

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Bordeaux, France

02/12/2025

From Stable Express
Missing Queen Elizabeth II -

02/12/2025

From Equibel

200% Belgian Girlpower on the way to CDI-W Neumunster this weekend!
Let's cheer for and .defalque as they dance their way to the top!!